Galactic Civilizations 2 - Dread Lords Cheat Codes: ------------ Submitted by: RM Cheat mode: ----------- If you want to enable cheats, you have to add the "cheat" command line parameter. (Note: that's 'cheat' [singular], not 'cheats' [plural]) to a shortcut to the application and you need to add it *outside* the quotes that enclose the application path in the shortcut. For example: "C:Program FilesStardockTotalGamingGalCiv2galciv2.exe" cheat After that, enter one of the following cheat codes: Result Code --------------------------------------------------------------- Add 1 to planet class - [CTRL] and P Add 10,000 BC - [CTRL] and M Add battleship - [CTRL] and B Assign remaining planets to major races - [CTRL] and L Complete social projects - [CTRL] and J Clone selected ship - [CTRL] and C Heal selected ship - [CTRL] and H Hail's major races - [CTRL] and 0-9 Restart on new map with new race - [CTRL] and N Research all techs - [SHIFT] and [CTRL] and R Research current tech - [CTRL] and R Teleport selected ship to pointer - [CTRL] and T Save game - [CTRL] and S Upgrade selected ship - [CTRL] and A United planets meeting - [CTRL] and V Remove fog of war - [CTRL] and U Upgrade selected ship - [CTRL] and A View frame rate - [CTRL] and F Use the Dread Lords to your advantage: -------------------------------------- Dread Lords are extremely tough if you don't have enough fire power. But their advance in technology is ultimately their weakness. When playing with AI allies, you may wonder why sometimes they get really advanced technology. That's because they just captured a Dread Lord occupied planet. Fortunately, their defensive capabilities are not as good as their offensive capabilities in ground attack. So if you want to get full advantage of the Dread Lords, prepare one planet near their border for continuous capture and re-capture. Each time you re- capture the planet, you get one really advanced technology. Dealing with Dread Lords: ------------------------- There is a way to effectively deal with Dread Lords. Their tactic is to send in small ships to weaken your planet defenses and then send in their usually unguarded troop ships. Their ships are all weapons and no defense. So its best you create a fleet of tiny ships with the best weaponry available. Make sure you have logistics technology so you can attack their ships with your fleet with an adequate number of ships. Their tiny ships has the speed of 11 and their small/medium ships have the speed of 5 and their troopships (that look like squids) have a speed of 6, so be sure to have sufficient ship engine technology to catch up with them. The troop ships is only a problem if you dont have ships orbiting your planets. Since they are usually unguarded, its best to create a small or tiny ship with only one minor weapon and a lot of engines, so you can attack them quick and clean. Creating a scout ship with no weapons and full of scanning modules, positioned at border planets also helps you prevent surprise attacks.
